Friendship Hill, 223 New Geneva Road, Point Marion, Fayette County, PA

See also Gallatin Sawmill-Eberhart Grist Mill, HAER PA-582.
Significance: Friendship Hill is the home of Albert Gallatin (1761-1849), a Swiss émigré who rose from a western Pennsylvania legislator to the Secretary of the Treasury under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. He was instrumental in arranging financing for ht Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the construction of the National Road. The house was constructed in a total of five stages, three under Gallatin, and is now a National Historic Site.
Survey number: HABS PA-6740
Building/structure dates: 1789 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1798 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1823 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1895 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1903 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000663